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| French TV Network Sues Over Palestinian Shooting Controversy |
| 2006-09-19 |
| By Eva Cahen CNSNews.com Correspondent Paris (CNSNews.com) - Six years after the world was gripped by media images showing a 12-year-old boy's death during an Israeli-Palestinian gun battle in Gaza, a French state-owned television channel -- accused of spreading misinformation -- is defending its reputation in court. In a series of lawsuits, France 2 Television is suing Philippe Karsenty, director of an online media watchdog agency, for alleged defamation, after he published an article urging that the network's news director Arlette Chabot and reporter Charles Enderlin "be stripped of their positions immediately." A public prosecutor here asked the judges to drop the charges against Karsenty, acknowledging that he had defamed Chabot and Enderlin, but declaring that the accusations against them were based on serious and impartial investigations and offered "relatively convincing proof" of fraud. The France 2 news report, broadcast in September 2000, was seen around the world after the network distributed it internationally -- for free. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #8 Pajamasmedia.com is also offering some first-class reporting, thanks to journalist Nidra Poller. |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-09-19 19:10 |
| #7 Ms. Tw, yes; the blogger is the scholar evoked in the article, Richard Landes, and his blog is the Augean Stables, with many interesting textes in addition to the al durah libel coverage. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-19 14:04 |
| #6 The trial is being blogged by one of the expert witnesses for the other side. (I think it was anonymous5089 who provided the link the other day.) He seemed comfortable that the judge was not on the side of the network, whose lawyer was apparently doing a terrible job. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-09-19 13:36 |
| #5 Just another illustration of the leftist MSM's axiom: "It's true, because we say it's true." |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-19 13:10 |
| #4 The fix is in. The judges will rule for their TV buddies over a bunch of Israelis. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2006-09-19 12:55 |
| #3 wow. Amazing isn't it. And all this time we thought we had a free press what we really had was a press that was bought and paid for by rich, anti-western manipulators. It's shocking to see just how badly we have been deceived. |
| Posted by: tabd 2006-09-19 12:25 |
| #2 Hey, no prob, there's a msm blackout on this. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-09-19 12:21 |
| #1 I think it is amazing that French TV would take this to court. Even if they win the case through a miscarriage of justice, the discussion and publicity surrounding the case is so harmful to France 2 that you wonder why they wanted to call attention to themselves in this manner. |
| Posted by: tabd 2006-09-19 12:18 |